Columbus Venture Partners

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Columbus Venture Partners is a Valencia-based venture capital firm specialising in life sciences, founded in 2016 and registered with the CNMV as an SGEIC. It invests in therapeutic and industrial biotechnology, advanced therapies, medical devices, precision medicine, diagnostics and digital health across Europe and the US, often co-founding and building the companies it backs, from Series A and B through growth rounds, with minimum tickets of €2M. It has raised Columbus Life Science Funds I (2016), II (over €70M, 2019), III (€120M, 2021) and IV (€150M, 2023), and in 2026 launched Fund V with a €200M target, backed by up to €70M from CDTI Innovación through Innvierte. Notable exits include Viralgen and AskBio, Sanifit Therapeutics and Radioterapia de Protones, and recent investments include Alto Pharmacy, Curve Therapeutics and Sermes CRO.

SectorsBiotechnology, Therapeutics, Advanced therapies, Medical devices, Precision medicine, Diagnostics, Digital health VC MapSeries B
portfolio by sector12
Healthtech & Bio11AI & Data1

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Team

Damià Tormo
General Partner
Javier García
General Partner
Julen Oyarzabal
Partner
Marc Marco
Partner
Jose Mesa
Partner
Robert Armstrong
Partner
Eva Rodrigo
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Dulce Iborra
Chief Corporate Officer (CCO)
Cristo Gordillo
Chief Legal Officer (CLO)
Enrique Izquierdo
Financial Controller
Roberto Lisart
Junior Financial Controller
Marisol Quintero
Operating Partner
José Vicente Pons
Operating Partner

Portfolio companies 16

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2026-11-04 Columbus ultima la liquidación de su primer fondo tras devolver más del triple del capital aportado ↗
Valencia Plaza
2026-11-04
2026-09-28 Dealflow #528: Trebellar raised $18M. Clarity AI merges. Indexa hits €6B in AUM. ↗
Dealflow.es Newsletter
2026-09-28
2026-06-19 Columbus Venture Partners closes its largest biotechnology and life sciences fund, sized at up to €220 million ↗
Capital-Riesgo.es
2026-06-19
2026-06-18 Columbus Venture Partners cierra su quinto fondo, de 200 millones, para impulsar empresas 'biotech' y 'healthtech' ↗
Valencia Plaza
2026-06-18
2026-06-04 Ona Therapeutics Raises $86.6 Million Series B to Advance First-in-Class ADCs into Clinical Development ↗
GlobeNewswire
2026-06-04
2026-05-27 AI firm Visium secures funds to scale across Europe and US ↗
startupticker.ch
2026-05-27
2026-05-21 Visium Secures Strategic Funding from Top-Tier Investors and Unicorn Founders ↗
EQS / WebDisclosure (press release)
2026-05-21
2026-03-04 ABE Capital Partners and Columbus Venture Partners acquire a majority stake in Sermes CRO to accelerate its growth ↗
Sermes CRO (press release)
2026-03-04
2026-01-06 Artis BioSolutions Announces Agreement to Acquire Syngoi Technologies to Deliver Next Generation Solutions for Synthetic DNA Technology ↗
BusinessWire
2026-01-06
2025-11-06 Accipiter Biosciences Emerges from Stealth with $12.7 Million in Seed Financing to Deliver de novo Protein Therapies for Complex Diseases ↗
GlobeNewswire
2025-11-06
2025-09-17 Columbus Venture Partners launches the Columbus Life Sciences Fund V with a target of €200 million ↗
2025-09-17 ARTHEx Biotech Upsizes Series B Financing Round to $87M to Advance Lead Program ATX-01 in Myotonic Dystrophy Type 1 and Expand Pipeline of Targeted RNA Medicines ↗
PRNewswire
2025-09-17
2025-09-08 Integra Therapeutics raises €10.7M to advance FiCAT platform and CAR-T validation ↗
2024-06-10 Syngoi Technologies Expands Synthetic DNA Manufacturing Capacity Following Series B Investment Led by Columbus Venture Partners ↗
Syngoi (press release)
2024-06-10
2024-05-14 Columbus VP cierra un fondo de €150 millones dirigido al sector biotech ↗
Capital Riesgo
2024-05-14
2024-02-27 Pfizer leads £40.5m round for Southampton drug discovery startup ↗
UKTN
2024-02-27
2023-05-16 Arthex Biotech closes a EUR 42M Series B financing round ↗
EIT Health
2023-05-16
2023-03-01 Columbus Venture incorpora un nuevo socio en Boston para acelerar sus inversiones en EEUU ↗
Valencia Plaza
2023-03-01
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